Wants "broad consumer offering" after getting developer feedback.

Google Glass will make its way to consumers' hands by 2014, according to Google cofounder Sergey Brin. Speaking to Bloomberg Television, Brin says that the company hopes to distribute the glasses after getting feedback from developers, who will wear the $1,500 glasses during a limited release in 2013.

At the Google I/O conference Wednesday, Google revealed its Google Glass project, announced in April, would start a developer feedback phase in 2013. Google went all out on a live demo during the event's keynote: a Google engineer donned the specs and went skydiving, to the delight of the attendees. Once the keynote was over, developers lined up to put their names in for the $1,500 "Explorer Edition" of Google Glass, and received glass bricks engraved with a number as a placeholder.

"These explorer editions I'd like to get out early next year," Brin told Bloomberg Television. "Within a year after that, I want to have broad consumer offering." Brin said that since the project's announcement in April, the company has received tons of valuable feedback, and the company hopes to "take that to the next level."

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I want this for recording everything I see and hear. My wife calls this life-boxing, but I can't find a reference right now. The only hitch is I don't want to involve Google in the process.

So, if I can get these and have them record to my server that I control, I would even pay the full $1500 for the glasses. The ability to show someone (or remind myself) what I actually said 10 minutes ago instead of what they (or I) think I said would be worth a LOT to me.

I look forward to the day when most people have a lot better idea of how fallible our memories and perceptions are.